It is a simple question, and the future is depending on it. We’ve never had this much freedom—we’ve never had the choice to do whatever we want. Who am I talking to? The ladies!

Because there is something for us to do. Never before did we have so many chances. Never was the world so open for us to create. We can chose to be lawyers, to be policewomen, have a kid when we’re sixty—heck, we can turn ourselves into men! There is an enormous potential in us, waiting to be expressed. A future that is dependent on us to be embodied; to be unveiled, created and unravelled. It is waiting for us.

The world is ready, so what’s keeping us from moving forward? The outer societal barrieres seem to have been removed. Thanks to the brave women (and men) in the ’60s who started rattling the chains, pushing against the old patriarchal world in which women were reduced to a life as etherical beings, living in pretty houses, baking sweet-smelling apple pies for their perfect families. A world in which they were denied entrance to academic life, working life, and public life. That confined world is now gone for those of us in the West.

So the question is, what we are waiting for to step up the plate and create the new world, using these newfound freedoms that women have been fighting for? The inner barrieres. Confusion. We are drunk with the possibilities that have suddenly opened up for our eyes, still so used to looking outward to fit roles that were created for us instead of carving out new ones for ourselves. Confused and wandering around like drunks, scared of being truly alive. Scared of getting behind a cause we thought of ourselves, not seeking guidance from others about what the “good woman” is and how she should behave.

What world can we create when we start looking inside, discovering our own depths. To find a core and learn to trust our very own deepest motivation for life, to creating, and moving humanity forward. And then from that point looking outside again, freeing up our awareness from the neurotic focus on ourselves: on how we feel, and on whether we are doing the right thing according to others. That’s when we get over ourselves and kick through this emotional-psychological cage of inner barriers, and express that which is trying to come through us. A truly free women who is fully here to create a new world with her own hands, not caring if she breakes a fingernail. To care not about ourselves, but only about what we’re giving to life.

So what’s your answer—yes, or no?